This paper uses two complementary approaches to estimate the effect of right-to-work (RTW) laws on wages and … indicate that RTW laws lower wages and unionization rates. Under the assumption that RTW laws only affect wages by lowering the … unionization rate, RTW can be used as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of unions on wages. In our …

reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …

declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into …

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

distributions of alternative wages for workers, it pushes employers toward the middle of the quality distribution. Second, union … standard-rate policies allow union?ununion differences in wages for workers of a given qualityto exist even when union …

unionization as the threat measure, imply very little relationship between either nonunion wages or the union wage gap and the … threat. The estimates that rely on the introduction of RTW laws show a significant relationship between nonunion wages and …

's assumption that wage bargainers are influenced by relative money wages rather than relative real wages. In Taylor's model money … that wage bargainers are influenced by relative real wages, which we consider somewhat more plausible, has some interesting …